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Belinda Chen Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Who will be the next president?

I want to ask "Who is the next president?"

1. (Who as subject/ Ex: Mr. Lee will be the next president.)

Who will be the next president?
We can't know who will be the next president.

2. (the next president as subject/ Ex: The next president will be Mr. Lee)

Who will the next president be?
We can't know who the next president will be.

Which one is correct? Or they are both correct.

Thanks in advance.
  

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Who will be the next president? Only this answer is correct: We can't know who will be the next president will be . )

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Who will be the next president?

Only this answer is correct:
We can't know who will be the next president will be.

Edit (Both questions are fine.)
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These are:

Who will be the next president?
Who will the next president be?
We can't know who the next president will be.

(Cross-posted, but I think both questions are native.)
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Mister MicawberThese are:Who will be the next president?Who will the next president be? We can't know who the next president will be.(Cross-posted, but I think both questions are native.)
Thank you for the reply!

In this sense, if I want to ask "who is your best partner?"

Who should be your best partner.--->You need to know who should be yo
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Belinda ChenThe wrong one would be "You need to know who should be your best partner."The rest of three are correct.Am I right?
Right. See for more on this topic.

CJ
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Thank you for sharing the link.

Although I know which sentence you think is wrong, I am wondering why You need to know who should be your best partner is wrong. Because it seems to me that when the question is:

Who should be your friend? (Who as the subject) so when Who as the subject is in the indirect question, the verb should be stay where it was.---> You n
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Belinda ChenThank you for sharing the link.Although I know which sentence you think is wrong, I am wondering why You need to know who should be your best partner is wrong. Because it seems to me that when the question is:Who should be your friend? (Who as the subject) so when Who as the subject is in the indirect question, the verb should be stay where it was.---> You
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Belinda ChenI am wondering why You need to know who should be your best partner is wrong.
I read it too quickly. You can do that one either way.

... know who should be ....
... know who ... should be.

With equative sentences (X is Y; X could be Y; X should be Y, etc.) you can often interpret the situation with X as the subj
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CalifJim Belinda ChenI am wondering why You need to know who should be your best partner is wrong.I read it too quickly. You can do that one either way.... know who should be ....... know who ... should be.With equative sentences (X is Y; X could be Y; X should be Y, etc.) you can often interpret the situation with X as the subject or with Y as the subject.Who is the pres
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Belinda ChenThank you for the detailed explanation. In this sense, all the four sentences in my first post should be correct. Right?
Yes, but it seems to me that we really like the forms with that verb at the end no matter what we think the subject is!

... can't know who ................. is.
... don't know who ................. will be.
... c
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I see~ I also have a similar question "how many people his classmates are in the party."

1. How many people would his classmates be in the party?
--»2. I asked him how many people his classmate would be in the party.
3. How many people in the party would be his classmate?
--»4. I asked him how many people in the party would be his classmates.

Throughout what we disc
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